Flagfin Cardinalfish, Jaydia truncata (Bleeker 1854)
Other Names: Flag-fin Cardinal-fish

A Flagfin Cardinalfish, Jaydia truncata, from the Northwest Shelf, Western Australia, June 2017. Source: John Pogonoski (CSIRO) via Peter Shanks / iNaturalist.org . License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
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Jaydia truncata in Fishes of Australia, accessed 13 Feb 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/3474
Flagfin Cardinalfish, Jaydia truncata (Bleeker 1854)
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Distribution |
Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia, to Trial Bay, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the Indo-west Pacific: Persian Gulf east to the Philippines and New Guinea, and north to southern Japan, south to Australia. |
Fisheries |
Taken as incidental bycatch in trawl fisheries. |
Remarks |
In Australia, this species has previously been known as Apogon ellioti, or Jaydia ellioti, a junior synonym of J. truncata. |
Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin truncatus (= truncate, cut off), in reference to the truncated caudal fin of this species compared with its presumed relatives at the time. |
Species Citation |
Apogon truncatus Bleeker 1854, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 7: 415. Type locality: Batavia (= Jakarta), Java, Indonesia. |
Resources |
Flagfin Cardinalfish, Jaydia truncata (Bleeker 1854)
References
Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. (as Apogon ellioti)
Bleeker, P. 1854. Specierum piscium javanensium novarum vel minus cognitarum diagnoses adumbratae. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 7: 415-448 See ref at BHL
Day, F. 1875. The Fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the sea and fresh water of India, Burma and Ceylon. London : B. Quaritch Part 1 168 pp., pls 1-40. (described as Apogon ellioti, type locality - Madras, India) See ref at BHL
Gon, O. 1996. Revision of the cardinalfish subgenus Jaydia (Perciformes, Apogonidae, Apogon). pp. 147-194 in Skelton, P.H. & Lutjeharms, J.R.E. The J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology—50 years. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 51: 1-320 (as Apogon (Jaydia) truncatus)
Günther, A. 1880. Report on the shore fishes procured during the voyage of H.M.S Challenger, in the years 1872–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 1(6): 1-82 pls 1-32 https://biostor.org/reference/144533 (described as Apogon arafurae, type locality - Arafura Sea)
Kuiter, R.H. & Kozawa, T. 2019. Cardinalfishes of the world. New ed. Seaford, Victoria : Aquatic Photographics, and Okazaki, Aichi, Japan : Anthias, Nexus: 1-198.
Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293
Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. 2014. Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters. Zootaxa 3846(2): 151–203
Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 (914, as Apogonichthys australis)
Russell, B.C., Fraser, T.H. & Larson, H.K. 2010. Castelnau's collection of Singapore fishes described by Pieter Bleeker. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 58(1): 93-102
Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. (as Apogon ellioti)
Smith, J.L.B. 1961. Fishes of the family Apogonidae of the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 22: 373-418 figs 1-11 pls 46-52 (as Jaydia ellioti)